864  -STRATIGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY.  [Boox VI. 
from Attica. A number of living genera likewise made their entry 
upon the scene, such as the hog, otter, antelope, beaver, vole, and cat. 
Some of the most formidable animals were the sabre-toothed lions 
(Machatrodus), and the earliest form of bear (Hyznarctos). The 

Fic. 414.—MAsToDON ANGUSTIDENS (OWEN). 
Reduced from restoration by M. Gaudry. 
Miccene forests were also tenanted by apes, of which several genera 
have been detected. Of these, Pliopitheeus was probably allied to 
the anthropoid apes; Dryopithecus (Fig. 415) may have been an 
anthropoid form, but is regarded by Owen as allied to the living 

Fic. 415.—MiocenE MAMMALS. 
a, Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup.) reduced ; b, Dryopithecus Fontani (Gaudry). 
gibbons; Oreopithecus is supposed to have had affinities with the 
anthropoid apes, macaques, and baboons, and a species of Colobus is 
found in Wurtemberg.* 
Considerable uncertainty must be admitted to rest upon the 
correlation of the later Tertiary deposits in different parts of Europe. 
In many cases their stratigraphical relations are too obscure to — 
1 Gaudry, Les Enchainements, p. 306. Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, p. 57. 
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